Your host returns to her undergraduate roots in German Studies for this episode, to the messy question of national identity in German-speaking Central Europe. The terrain is the life and writings of Theodor Herzl and our trusty guide is Germanist and all-round fact-fountain Alex Marshall.
We cover concepts of nationhood and Jewish identity in pre-war Vienna, as well as duelling societies, impressive beards and what we can learn from the telling of jokes.
Dr Alex Marshall lectures in German and Academic English at Sheffield Hallam University. His doctorate was on early Zionism and concepts of nationhood and his research interests cover nationalism before the First World War, fin-de-siècle Jewish identity politics, the Habsburg Empire, utopianism, anti-modernity and theory of humour. He's on Twitter as @ralexm.
If you read German and want to immerse yourself in nineteenth-century Viennese news and culture then The Austrian National Library has an extensive collection of digitised newspapers and magazines available online, completely free, with no log-in required.
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